Hunter Stidham No the card text unaffected by all other card effects means that it‘s only affected by it‘s own effect so Necrovalley doesn‘t boost the monster because necrovalley‘s boost still is an card effect
@@hunterstidham1221 all other also includes Necorvalley because it’s another card on the field. The only affect it can be affected by is it’s own, so every other card on the field is unaffected as long as Necrovalley is on the field, including Necrovalley.
20:34 this card is meant to be a lower power single card version of all 3 Egyptian goods. The top effect is Ra The middle is obelisk The bottom is slifer If you look in the card artwork you can actually see the gods behind him on the tablet
@@pratley6026 no problem my gravekeepers are my fave out of all my decks. Best part of playing gravekeepers is that since they are not meta they don't get hit by the ban list much(just have to keep an eye on the eratas for necrovalley)
Because they're all Spellcasters, cards like "Wonder Wand" and Magician's Left(Right) Hand fit very well in this deck. Also, Spiritualist can Fusion Summon ANY Fusion Spellcaster. If you get Quintet Magician out with its nuking effect, that's game over.
I played gravekeepers in the beginning era, & crushed the meta in my area. When. Talking about the stats, you're forgetting that necrovalley is supposed to always be on the field. So 1500 atk is actually 2000 atk 4star with piercing. It's actually REALLY good for the period.
@@VJ-td6oc well, if you have one effect to choose, and you choose to activate the effect of the monster(to choose), DL will give you the option to activate the first one, if you say no, it will give you the second option, if you say no again, it will give you the last one, however, it will not give you the option to activate an effect that wouldn't do anything, so if the opponents' field is empty the first option will happen, if the field only has face down monsters and you reject the first effect, it will automatically destroy them, lastly, if it has only face up monsters and you reject the first effect, it will automatically do the last one. So you have to be smart so as to not waste tributes when summoning him.
Love the Gravekeepers. Was one of the first archetypes I ever used and boy was I good at using them. A few reasons to why I love them. It completely shut down my brother's Dragunity deck. I excelled at controling my graveyard with Visionary and Stele. And to throw in a little extra damage I felt was definitely needed I added Coffin Seller to really make people regret sacrificing and or discarding their monsters. I really loved using them and I definitely want to build another Gravekeeper deck.
I run all Gravekeepers which allows me to use Solidarity as well as soon as any of them go to the Graveyard. Necrovalley+Solidarity equals a 1300 ATK boost for any monster and Visionary can become way OP depending on the time of play. If I get the right hand (Spy/Guardian/Recruiter/Nobleman, Necrovalley, Solidarity, and Visionary) I get a 3500 ATK monster with protection turn two. Not to mention that Solidarity stacks so running three and Necrovalley is a 2900 ATK boost if I can get it.
24:47 how is it not amazing?? I run this at 3 in my GK deck. It let's me take pretty much any card I want from my deck(hands down one of the best searchers in the game). It protects necrovalley and itself. Making combo plays with hidden temples much easier to pull of. It's stats can be insane if you play it right: Starts at 2000 Gains 500 from valley 2500 Gains equal to the levels used for summon: Use a spiritualist and an oricle they combine to 14 so add another 1400 Gives you - 3900 attack - 3900 defence - can't be destroyed by card effect. Now if you have locked your opponent out of special summons with hidden temples they are going to find it incredibly hard to get around this monster.
As someone who is getting back into dueling again after stopping for a while, I am loving the ideas some of the comment section is giving me on building my deck. I've been running my personal deck in ygopro and Master duels and having a lot of success
They should release a lvl7 xyz made using 2 supernaturalist that is titled “ The Gravekeeper “. Or maybe release a synchro instead and a new tuner to summon it. Another fusion monster would also be cool
Great video! A thing that i think not too many people realize is that Spiritualist can summon Shaddoll Winda if you have the materials. Also, a downside of the Supernaturalist is that is unable to search Rite of Spirit or Gravekeeper's Stele :c
Back when I played competitively back in 2016 the best opening I could get was Necrovalley Spy Commandant Imperial tombs Royal tribute Going first, activate necrovalley, pitch commandant for a second necrovalley, set spy, set tombs, activate tribute. If I was playing against Burning Abyss this was essentially game. Plus, if they draw a monster and attacked set spy it would have 2500 def and give me a free descendant that I can use to pop any monster or card that worried me I loved my GK deck so much
I wish when you review an archetype you don't just say "No one uses it, it sucks, let's move on." When I click on a review I want to see the overall usability in today's meta (AND NON-META), because after all, one of the game's problem is that a lot of people play to win instead of playing to have fun. That's neither here nor there though, my point is that it seems you're "reviewing" this archetype through one lens. Please try to be a little more unbiased towards non-meta playstyles. Furthermore, there's WAY too many ads for a thirty minute video full of nothingness.
Is konami still in control with yugioh? Been wanting to revamp the gravekeepers. Donate some of my trucker money to redo all gravekeepers. I want them to have everything but I want them to be competitive again. Normal, effect, tribute, 2 tribute, 3 tribute, special summon, ritual summon, pendulum summon, union, xyz, fusion, link summon, synchro summon, fusion summon. I want them to be just as good as the dark magician, blue-eyes, red-eyes, exodia archetypes.
I feel like necrovalley decks are slow but they'll slow your opponents down with them with Necrovalley and Secret Temples of Necrovalley effectively shutting down decks heavily reliant on special summons(Basically Meta Decks). Another advatage for Gravekeeper's Decks is the fact how cheap you can build it when buying as singles from local card shops. Spent less than 10 dollars and got all the core Gravekeeper cards, price may vary. Fill in plenty of negate cards(Solemn Series) and voila! You have a necrovalley deck.
Made an extremely nasty GraveKeeper’s deck and my friend tried making decks to beat it cause I’ve locked down everything and even card effects that activate in the GY including Darklord Nurseburn couldn’t use her effect
i know this is old video but heretic isnt affected by necrovalley since it's unnafected by everything WHILE necrovalley is on the feild, it doesnt say except necrovalley
I love these guys. I have a gravekeeper deck built for goat, Edison and hat formats. Soear soldier was also alot better than you gave it credit for. Under Necrovalley, it was bigger than Airknight Parsath
Recruiter is also not once per turn. You can seriously abuse this effect. Example: Tribute Recruiter to Chief*. Revive it with Chief. Use Throne to Tribute to any Gravekeeper*. Revive with Rite of Spirit. Link Summon any card*. * = triggering a search. I love using Recruiter to search Commandant to get more copies of Necrovalley. Really demoralizes your opponent.
I was running dark dragon thingy. Its been too long. I still have my deck in a ultra pro deck box just sitting there. I rarely ever touch it. It's the hell hole where my money used to go to lol. Anyways used to use stuff like that. Have 3 darks in the graveyard use it effect, allure of darkness was a good one. Even used starlight road. Eh you want to destroy everything. Poof negated and special summon a stardust dragon. Was wanting to run that crittious dragon fusion in my deck. You know the one that fuses with a crush card virus is a dark dragon. Suppose to be a good control card. I was running xyz material utopia warrior's in my deck. Was working. Easy to grab up 2 lv 4 monsters. My issue was getting them on the field fast enough. There was a magic card that allowed you to double summon. Most effects of gravekeepers was from their card's and more likely I was trying my best to OTK if I could. Was even thinking about the forbidden pieces since most gravekeepers would thin out your deck anyways.
Supernaturalist gains more atk/def depending on the combined levels of the monsters that summoned it. If you tribute Oracle from the hand, that's an extra 10 levels. With Necrovalley, that's likely a 3900 atk monster on the field that can't be destroyed outside of battle. I have one in my deck and I can get it to the hand with Recruiter or Throne.
Also heretic will not get boost of necrovalley. Also nobleman and soy is a good combo, visionary is good for later game, and oracle is good for using as fusion material with spiritualist
5:33 consider the fact that most GK decks want to have valley out first turn all GKs get extra 500 attack so level 4 with 200 attack is not shit(especially for early years yugioh)
Yeah at the time 1900ATK was the highest attack you could get from a level 4 monster without a negative effect. The game was a lot slower so if you first turn Necrovalley, summoning out a 2000 ATK monster immediately put your opponent on the defensive. Piercing applied even more pressure since your opponent couldn't just put a wall like Spirit Reaper down.
I think you are too harsh on assailant and watcher by old school yugioh standards. Obviously they are not great now. But there were plenty of good cards with discard costs you could negate with watchman like lightning vortex, magic jammer, raigeki break, karma cut, tribute to the doomed, back to square one, etc. And there are definitely situations in older yugioh where assailant's ability could be useful. There were plenty of monsters with lopsided attack and defense that you would love to change the battle positions of as assaliant could destroy them that way such as gemini elf, la jinn mystical geni of the lamp, neo the magical swordsman, giant solidier of stone, mystical elf, summoned skull, etc.
Gravekeeper decks used to be so annoying for me lol. Although I never used one myself, there's this one card called "The End of Anubis" that, while not part of the Gravekeepers archetype, its effect is pretty much that of Necrovalley. I used to run that card in my DARK deck back in the day before Synchros came out. Nice use of the Forbidden Memories OST btw!
This video is kinda pissing me off. I got to commandment, one of the most used cards in my deck..... and he’s just badmouthing it. Think about this, what if your entire deck was only graveKeeper monsters. I will send a graveKeeper to the graveyard to keep it alive from a dark hole, or another affect, which in the end will just boost its attack even more. Pair it with Recruiter and suddenly you have a way to get whatever monster you want from your deck while protecting your boss monster/boosting him *continues watching to Hertic and pounds my head into the wall* Thank you for giving it more credit than it’s due, but once again you can’t F’ing read. As long as Necrovalley is on the field, it’s immune to all other card effects.... INCLUDING NECROVALLEY!!!! It stays at 1800 *breaths into bag as I get into noblemen* You... omfg........ geez, if only *Coughs spy* there was a very good *Coughs spy* GraveKeeper that is *coughs spy* best utilized facedown *coughs spy* for its flip affect....... SPY!!!!!! *WANTS TO PUNCH YOU THROUGH MY F’ING PHONE* READ!!!! READ THE F’YING CARD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!! “You can activate ANY!!!! Of these affects” not just,” you can only take away 2,000 if you sacrifice 3. Plus, let’s say you have two Comandments and a spy on your side of the field and decide to sacrifice all three with Necrovalley. That’s 20 levels times 100, so now it’s at 4,500 attack and even if your opponent had a blue eyes Ultimate dragon, it’s attack goes down to 2,500 and then the opponent gets hit with 2,000 points of damage. I came back to this video and realized after I said all that you actually commented on for oracle. I’m sorry I got angry, but their my favorite cards I won competitions with. You can understand, I hope, why I get so postal about it.
Pretty much my problems with this as well. Plus there are other cards unintended for this archetype that make it even more ridiculous. I run all Gravekeepers which allows me to use Solidarity as well as soon as any of them go to the Graveyard. Necrovalley+Solidarity equals a 1300 ATK boost for any monster and Visionary can become way OP depending on the time of play. If I get the right hand (Spy/Guardian/Recruiter/Nobleman, Necrovalley, Solidarity, and Visionary) I get a 3500 ATK monster with protection that actually buffs it on turn two. Not to mention that Solidarity stacks so running three and Necrovalley is a 2900 ATK boost if I can get it.
@@DeltaShinyZeta ok cause I saw gravekeepers in marik's structure deck and in the scripted duel against Pegasus and I was just thinking " wait, marik did not use gravekeepers."
honest question but seriously, are flip summons really not relevant at all anymore? imagine summoning 7+ monsters in one turn to get to a high-level monster and then being bounced by Gravekeeper's Guard just like that. i mean, forget the win/lose for a moment but can y'all imagine the feeling? :(
@@DeltaShinyZeta ah.. i see. it's sad to know that my fav archetypes (gravekeepers and crystal beasts) aren't even relevant anymore these days. those two kept me playing yugioh games for a really long time...
the reason people don't tribute is because it's a pointless -1, but chief isn't because it specials a gravekeeper from the grave. Not to say it's amazing, but running 1 copy isn't actually the worst idea.
You uploaded this 3 month's ago so you should be able to help with what card's can go into this deck in order to make it a pro tournament deck. I've faced pros before. I stopped playing because of this crap with most people playing meta deck's no matter whose turn it was the opponent would be I special summon this to your side of the field destroy your field special summon to my field attack end of game. Note this was when link started and I was like very confused because I've played since the show was on tv.
The gravekeepers fusion monster is a must have since it protects your necrovalley and itself and also let's you grab pretty much any card you want from your deck during each of your end phases. It also has great stats. But don't bother clogging your deck with polymerization, gravekeepers spiritualist acts as poly for the deck along as you have necrovalley on feild(which in any good GK deck you have within your first few turns if not your fist turn). Running visionary or Oracle along side it really helps with the attack boost for supernaturalist plus they are both good cards. I know this uploader doesn't seem to like visionary but to me it is a great card it has protection and good stats. Starts at 2000 Goes to 2500 with valley Gains 200 for each GK in grave Sends a GK to the grave for the protection so gets even more attack.
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Heretic does not gain atk by Necrovalley cause its unaffected by all cards effects including Necrovalley
But it says it’s unaffected by all OTHER card effects, so wouldn’t it have 2300?
Hunter Stidham No the card text unaffected by all other card effects means that it‘s only affected by it‘s own effect so Necrovalley doesn‘t boost the monster because necrovalley‘s boost still is an card effect
@@hunterstidham1221 played the video game the most recent one and Heritc does not get the boost i was sad about it too
O9p
@@hunterstidham1221 all other also includes Necorvalley because it’s another card on the field. The only affect it can be affected by is it’s own, so every other card on the field is unaffected as long as Necrovalley is on the field, including Necrovalley.
20:34 this card is meant to be a lower power single card version of all 3 Egyptian goods.
The top effect is Ra
The middle is obelisk
The bottom is slifer
If you look in the card artwork you can actually see the gods behind him on the tablet
Never thought of that mate cheers
@@pratley6026 no problem my gravekeepers are my fave out of all my decks.
Best part of playing gravekeepers is that since they are not meta they don't get hit by the ban list much(just have to keep an eye on the eratas for necrovalley)
same gravekeepers has been a long favorite forever
Finally, my favorite archetype. I love them so much. Also, I used to think gravekeeper's Spy was a female. I still do actually
Wait what!!!! Lmao my mind is blown 🤣
@@FitzForward is it a guy what about the nobel man i think its a girl
@Alucard Bunche Nobleman, Spiritualist, and Spy are female.
@@HyugaJeremy so is assailant I think
Because they're all Spellcasters, cards like "Wonder Wand" and Magician's Left(Right) Hand fit very well in this deck. Also, Spiritualist can Fusion Summon ANY Fusion Spellcaster. If you get Quintet Magician out with its nuking effect, that's game over.
Trueee I always build my Gravekeepers with Quintet Magician uwu
Me as well. I’ve won so many games with a turn 2 quintet magician
While opening packs in Legacy Of The Duelist, thought about making a deck of this archetype, yet from now on not sure how good it might be at all.
I liked using the gravekeepers because they reminded me of some characters from the show.
I played gravekeepers in the beginning era, & crushed the meta in my area.
When. Talking about the stats, you're forgetting that necrovalley is supposed to always be on the field.
So 1500 atk is actually 2000 atk 4star with piercing. It's actually REALLY good for the period.
20:35 The card says any, meaning you could sacrifice one gravekeeper and still use the last affect
Are you sure about that? In duel links if you tribute 1 it doesn't let you use any effect except the first one
@@VJ-td6oc well, if you have one effect to choose, and you choose to activate the effect of the monster(to choose), DL will give you the option to activate the first one, if you say no, it will give you the second option, if you say no again, it will give you the last one, however, it will not give you the option to activate an effect that wouldn't do anything, so if the opponents' field is empty the first option will happen, if the field only has face down monsters and you reject the first effect, it will automatically destroy them, lastly, if it has only face up monsters and you reject the first effect, it will automatically do the last one. So you have to be smart so as to not waste tributes when summoning him.
@@afeathereddinosaur You are right,thanks for clearing that up for me :)
Love the Gravekeepers. Was one of the first archetypes I ever used and boy was I good at using them.
A few reasons to why I love them.
It completely shut down my brother's Dragunity deck.
I excelled at controling my graveyard with Visionary and Stele.
And to throw in a little extra damage I felt was definitely needed I added Coffin Seller to really make people regret sacrificing and or discarding their monsters.
I really loved using them and I definitely want to build another Gravekeeper deck.
I run all Gravekeepers which allows me to use Solidarity as well as soon as any of them go to the Graveyard. Necrovalley+Solidarity equals a 1300 ATK boost for any monster and Visionary can become way OP depending on the time of play. If I get the right hand (Spy/Guardian/Recruiter/Nobleman, Necrovalley, Solidarity, and Visionary) I get a 3500 ATK monster with protection turn two. Not to mention that Solidarity stacks so running three and Necrovalley is a 2900 ATK boost if I can get it.
18:30 heretic is unaffected by all other cards, including necrovalley. So he does not gain the stat buffs. Thats why he's a "heretic"
Yes good point. This was a mistake a made when making this video. I also messed up on Oracle
24:47 how is it not amazing??
I run this at 3 in my GK deck.
It let's me take pretty much any card I want from my deck(hands down one of the best searchers in the game).
It protects necrovalley and itself. Making combo plays with hidden temples much easier to pull of.
It's stats can be insane if you play it right:
Starts at 2000
Gains 500 from valley 2500
Gains equal to the levels used for summon:
Use a spiritualist and an oricle they combine to 14 so add another 1400
Gives you
- 3900 attack
- 3900 defence
- can't be destroyed by card effect.
Now if you have locked your opponent out of special summons with hidden temples they are going to find it incredibly hard to get around this monster.
I like to run 1 Spy in case I don’t really need anything else and I have Headsman ready, but that’s just me
I run two spy so i dont have to tribute summon shaman😅
As someone who is getting back into dueling again after stopping for a while, I am loving the ideas some of the comment section is giving me on building my deck. I've been running my personal deck in ygopro and Master duels and having a lot of success
You can chain noblemen to spy and recruiter you can chain that 1 card with its effect 3 times in 1 turn if your enemy can attack enough
you can choose which effect you want from oracle, even if you just tributed for 1 gravekeeper, you can choose the 3rd effect
They should release a lvl7 xyz made using 2 supernaturalist that is titled “ The Gravekeeper “. Or maybe release a synchro instead and a new tuner to summon it. Another fusion monster would also be cool
Great video! A thing that i think not too many people realize is that Spiritualist can summon Shaddoll Winda if you have the materials. Also, a downside of the Supernaturalist is that is unable to search Rite of Spirit or Gravekeeper's Stele :c
Considering it has Necrovalley in its card text. I think Master Duel fixed that problem.
You don't need to tribute 3 monsters to get the last effect, you can choose the one you want, with just one of them the last one can be activated
Gravekeepers were my first archetype
Gravekeeper chief looked like a rapper.
I found this video very informative and well presented. Thank you for you efforts 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Back when I played competitively back in 2016 the best opening I could get was
Necrovalley
Spy
Commandant
Imperial tombs
Royal tribute
Going first, activate necrovalley, pitch commandant for a second necrovalley, set spy, set tombs, activate tribute.
If I was playing against Burning Abyss this was essentially game.
Plus, if they draw a monster and attacked set spy it would have 2500 def and give me a free descendant that I can use to pop any monster or card that worried me
I loved my GK deck so much
I used Nobleman to set spy and spy to summon Nobleman or to set up other plays. It certainly came in handy more often than not
Hi there, nice video but...,
Heretic does not get field boost
You can use either of oracles effects by tributing 1 gravekeeper
What about oracle?
I wish when you review an archetype you don't just say "No one uses it, it sucks, let's move on." When I click on a review I want to see the overall usability in today's meta (AND NON-META), because after all, one of the game's problem is that a lot of people play to win instead of playing to have fun. That's neither here nor there though, my point is that it seems you're "reviewing" this archetype through one lens. Please try to be a little more unbiased towards non-meta playstyles. Furthermore, there's WAY too many ads for a thirty minute video full of nothingness.
My favourite of all the deck archetypes! They deserve new support like a GL Link and XYZ monster and other Spell/Trap cards
Is konami still in control with yugioh? Been wanting to revamp the gravekeepers. Donate some of my trucker money to redo all gravekeepers. I want them to have everything but I want them to be competitive again. Normal, effect, tribute, 2 tribute, 3 tribute, special summon, ritual summon, pendulum summon, union, xyz, fusion, link summon, synchro summon, fusion summon. I want them to be just as good as the dark magician, blue-eyes, red-eyes, exodia archetypes.
I feel like necrovalley decks are slow but they'll slow your opponents down with them with Necrovalley and Secret Temples of Necrovalley effectively shutting down decks heavily reliant on special summons(Basically Meta Decks).
Another advatage for Gravekeeper's Decks is the fact how cheap you can build it when buying as singles from local card shops.
Spent less than 10 dollars and got all the core Gravekeeper cards, price may vary.
Fill in plenty of negate cards(Solemn Series) and voila! You have a necrovalley deck.
I run Gravekeepers and Spear Soldier was my only out to Crooked Cook with Right Hand Sharks effect. Beat that Exodia Deck because of it.
Cool Video ! keep up the good work! Needs an update or deck profile 😎
Made an extremely nasty GraveKeeper’s deck and my friend tried making decks to beat it cause I’ve locked down everything and even card effects that activate in the GY including Darklord Nurseburn couldn’t use her effect
i know this is old video but heretic isnt affected by necrovalley since it's unnafected by everything WHILE necrovalley is on the feild, it doesnt say except necrovalley
True! I found this out later
3:28 I run a gravekeeper's deck and I love getting them into the graveyard to power up my visionary
I love spellcasters, but most I know about these is from GX. I use the spear guy tho. I like making equip decks in the video games.
When yugioh was actually good, now it's a fucking cess pool
I love these guys. I have a gravekeeper deck built for goat, Edison and hat formats. Soear soldier was also alot better than you gave it credit for. Under Necrovalley, it was bigger than Airknight Parsath
Does grave keepers recruiter only get its affect while on the field ? Or can it be sent with foolish and still happen?
Recruiter is also not once per turn. You can seriously abuse this effect. Example:
Tribute Recruiter to Chief*. Revive it with Chief. Use Throne to Tribute to any Gravekeeper*. Revive with Rite of Spirit. Link Summon any card*.
* = triggering a search.
I love using Recruiter to search Commandant to get more copies of Necrovalley. Really demoralizes your opponent.
I was running dark dragon thingy. Its been too long. I still have my deck in a ultra pro deck box just sitting there. I rarely ever touch it. It's the hell hole where my money used to go to lol. Anyways used to use stuff like that. Have 3 darks in the graveyard use it effect, allure of darkness was a good one. Even used starlight road. Eh you want to destroy everything. Poof negated and special summon a stardust dragon. Was wanting to run that crittious dragon fusion in my deck. You know the one that fuses with a crush card virus is a dark dragon. Suppose to be a good control card. I was running xyz material utopia warrior's in my deck. Was working. Easy to grab up 2 lv 4 monsters. My issue was getting them on the field fast enough. There was a magic card that allowed you to double summon. Most effects of gravekeepers was from their card's and more likely I was trying my best to OTK if I could. Was even thinking about the forbidden pieces since most gravekeepers would thin out your deck anyways.
My favorite archtype but I thought you were a bit harsh on gravekeeper assailant
same able to switch battle posistion is very strong in my friend group
YOU WATCH YOUR MOUTH ABOUT GRAVEKEEPERS VISIONARY IT IS AMAZING I CAN POP OFF WITH LIKE 6.5K ATK FROM IT
Supernaturalist gains more atk/def depending on the combined levels of the monsters that summoned it. If you tribute Oracle from the hand, that's an extra 10 levels. With Necrovalley, that's likely a 3900 atk monster on the field that can't be destroyed outside of battle. I have one in my deck and I can get it to the hand with Recruiter or Throne.
You could just use compulsory evacuation on him
@@Rajiin havent seen that card in a while personnoly
Is this song "shifting sands" from Mario??
Also heretic will not get boost of necrovalley. Also nobleman and soy is a good combo, visionary is good for later game, and oracle is good for using as fusion material with spiritualist
5:33 consider the fact that most GK decks want to have valley out first turn all GKs get extra 500 attack so level 4 with 200 attack is not shit(especially for early years yugioh)
Yeah at the time 1900ATK was the highest attack you could get from a level 4 monster without a negative effect.
The game was a lot slower so if you first turn Necrovalley, summoning out a 2000 ATK monster immediately put your opponent on the defensive. Piercing applied even more pressure since your opponent couldn't just put a wall like Spirit Reaper down.
I think you are too harsh on assailant and watcher by old school yugioh standards. Obviously they are not great now. But there were plenty of good cards with discard costs you could negate with watchman like lightning vortex, magic jammer, raigeki break, karma cut, tribute to the doomed, back to square one, etc.
And there are definitely situations in older yugioh where assailant's ability could be useful. There were plenty of monsters with lopsided attack and defense that you would love to change the battle positions of as assaliant could destroy them that way such as gemini elf, la jinn mystical geni of the lamp, neo the magical swordsman, giant solidier of stone, mystical elf, summoned skull, etc.
Gravekeeper decks used to be so annoying for me lol.
Although I never used one myself, there's this one card called "The End of Anubis" that, while not part of the Gravekeepers archetype, its effect is pretty much that of Necrovalley. I used to run that card in my DARK deck back in the day before Synchros came out.
Nice use of the Forbidden Memories OST btw!
End of Anubis locks down everything in the graveyard, even the gravekeepers. It's like Necrovalley and Gravkeepers Shaman with no exceptions
Sadly Heretic doesn't gain the boost from Necrovalley
Isn’t Heretic unaffected by Necrovalley’s 500 AP boost as well?
This video is kinda pissing me off. I got to commandment, one of the most used cards in my deck..... and he’s just badmouthing it. Think about this, what if your entire deck was only graveKeeper monsters. I will send a graveKeeper to the graveyard to keep it alive from a dark hole, or another affect, which in the end will just boost its attack even more. Pair it with Recruiter and suddenly you have a way to get whatever monster you want from your deck while protecting your boss monster/boosting him
*continues watching to Hertic and pounds my head into the wall* Thank you for giving it more credit than it’s due, but once again you can’t F’ing read. As long as Necrovalley is on the field, it’s immune to all other card effects.... INCLUDING NECROVALLEY!!!! It stays at 1800
*breaths into bag as I get into noblemen* You... omfg........ geez, if only *Coughs spy* there was a very good *Coughs spy* GraveKeeper that is *coughs spy* best utilized facedown *coughs spy* for its flip affect....... SPY!!!!!!
*WANTS TO PUNCH YOU THROUGH MY F’ING PHONE* READ!!!! READ THE F’YING CARD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!! “You can activate ANY!!!! Of these affects” not just,” you can only take away 2,000 if you sacrifice 3. Plus, let’s say you have two Comandments and a spy on your side of the field and decide to sacrifice all three with Necrovalley. That’s 20 levels times 100, so now it’s at 4,500 attack and even if your opponent had a blue eyes Ultimate dragon, it’s attack goes down to 2,500 and then the opponent gets hit with 2,000 points of damage.
I came back to this video and realized after I said all that you actually commented on for oracle. I’m sorry I got angry, but their my favorite cards I won competitions with. You can understand, I hope, why I get so postal about it.
Pretty much my problems with this as well. Plus there are other cards unintended for this archetype that make it even more ridiculous. I run all Gravekeepers which allows me to use Solidarity as well as soon as any of them go to the Graveyard. Necrovalley+Solidarity equals a 1300 ATK boost for any monster and Visionary can become way OP depending on the time of play. If I get the right hand (Spy/Guardian/Recruiter/Nobleman, Necrovalley, Solidarity, and Visionary) I get a 3500 ATK monster with protection that actually buffs it on turn two. Not to mention that Solidarity stacks so running three and Necrovalley is a 2900 ATK boost if I can get it.
Why are gravekeepers associated with marik?
@@DeltaShinyZeta ok cause I saw gravekeepers in marik's structure deck and in the scripted duel against Pegasus and I was just thinking " wait, marik did not use gravekeepers."
Necrovalley AKA Ghost Belle On Crack!
honest question but seriously, are flip summons really not relevant at all anymore?
imagine summoning 7+ monsters in one turn to get to a high-level monster and then being bounced by Gravekeeper's Guard just like that.
i mean, forget the win/lose for a moment but can y'all imagine the feeling? :(
@@DeltaShinyZeta ah.. i see. it's sad to know that my fav archetypes (gravekeepers and crystal beasts) aren't even relevant anymore these days. those two kept me playing yugioh games for a really long time...
I disagree with you about Visionary. That card beats over most cards with 3k atk in 2010
Breh you lost me when you said don't run Poly , your not a duelist lol
the reason people don't tribute is because it's a pointless -1, but chief isn't because it specials a gravekeeper from the grave. Not to say it's amazing, but running 1 copy isn't actually the worst idea.
You uploaded this 3 month's ago so you should be able to help with what card's can go into this deck in order to make it a pro tournament deck. I've faced pros before. I stopped playing because of this crap with most people playing meta deck's no matter whose turn it was the opponent would be I special summon this to your side of the field destroy your field special summon to my field attack end of game. Note this was when link started and I was like very confused because I've played since the show was on tv.
The gravekeepers fusion monster is a must have since it protects your necrovalley and itself and also let's you grab pretty much any card you want from your deck during each of your end phases. It also has great stats.
But don't bother clogging your deck with polymerization, gravekeepers spiritualist acts as poly for the deck along as you have necrovalley on feild(which in any good GK deck you have within your first few turns if not your fist turn).
Running visionary or Oracle along side it really helps with the attack boost for supernaturalist plus they are both good cards.
I know this uploader doesn't seem to like visionary but to me it is a great card it has protection and good stats.
Starts at 2000
Goes to 2500 with valley
Gains 200 for each GK in grave
Sends a GK to the grave for the protection so gets even more attack.
Man these takes have aged terribly.